Mass gen or john Hopkins for tos surgery?
 

Any thoughts or experiences?

More people have talked about excellent experiences with Dr. donohue at MGH than with Dr. Freislag at John Hopkins. You can do a search to find the posts

i cannot say enough good things about mgh
have heard many horror stories about jh

MGH or Hopkins
 

Had a terrific experience with Dean Donahue at MGH leading to my pec minor tenotomy last week. Still early for comment on my TOS relief but the testing and the time spent with the surgeon was exceptionally great...the rationale was crystal clear.

Dr. Freischlag is moving from John Hopkins to UCSD.

MGH or Hopkins.
 

Had a pec minor tenotomy last week with Dr. Donahue following same side Botox injections plus assessment, following diagnostics=A and V Doppler with provocation, CT with dye(with special algorithm he uses to improve imaging), and EMG, following TOS specific PT for almost six months. I read about Hopkins from their website and saw YouTube presentations by their surgery boss. I also saw a Dr. Donahue presentation from a link from this site which was impressive. My and friend's MGH experiences are significantly better than what we have in the community where I was "lost" for about a year.

My second choice would have been Washington University in St. Louis where they've been doing TOS research since the mid 90's or Baylor where Chris Carpenter, baseball pitcher, went for treatment.

The significance in finding an expert provider is the specificity and the reliability of the intervention. For example, many other conditions mimic TOS, some TOS responds to expert TOS PT, some to Botox, and in my case, I hope, a simple tenotomy instead of a full decompression, will resolve my symptoms.

As a nurse, I was most impressed with the time he took carefully assessing
my presentation and the folks who work with him, they shine! Hospital folks are usually quite frank with their opinion...Donahue has quite a large bragging crew at MGH and in the Boston area.

Sorry! It's UCD. My brain is on college acronym overload. D as in Davis.

That's not to far from me. Thanks for sharing the info.
Do you know when it is happening?

February 10, 2014

Davis will still have an excellent vet and viticulture program.

keep us posted on your recovery!

thats interesting, wondering if its worth going down there for an assesment. Do you know when she is moving?

be careful. i have no experience, but have heard many horror stories.

If you read a post or two down, I messed-up. It's UC Davis she is going to and I'd agree with Heybro on his warning.

So does the red flag go to John Hopkins or Freishlag herself then? Any links I could check out?

I don't know about John Hopkins itself or other TOS doctors at JH. If you have a choice, I'd check-out MGH or better yet, look at both.